.Henry Flynt PHILOSOPHY

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OVERVIEWS
About Henry Flynt
Henry Flynt: abbreviated list of publications
Henry Flynt: selected unpublished manuscripts
Henry Flynt: correlative chronology
Photos of Henry Flynt
Photos of Henry Flynt art works

Show in Advance of Its Existence
The SAMO© Graffiti
Past Events

PHILOSOPHY
The Flaws Underlying Beliefs
Primary Study: Informal Paraphrase
The ‘Does Time Exist?’ Trap
Philosophical Reflections
Is Incredulity Self-Defeating?
Conventional wisdom on the progress of knowledge:  Aristotelian discourse-universes
How Substantial Is Non-Actual Possibility?
Rhetorical Appraisal of Theories

META-TECHNOLOGY
Uncompromising Positioning -- Part I
Uncompromising Positioning -- Part II
Preface to collected writings in meta-technology
Meta-Technology: An Analytical Sketch
Charts:

Meta-Technology Chart
Chart Exposition
Upward Displacement Chart (exposition forthcoming)
Lessons in Meta-Technology
Refutation of Arithmetic
That 1 = 2
The Crystallization of Concept Art in 1961
The Invalidity of Mathematics: The Original Concept Art Essay and the Refutation of Arithmetic Project
Mathematics, Tokenetics, and Uncanny Calculi: 1961 Concept Art in Retrospect
Introduction to the Logic of Contradictions
Shall the logic of contradictions be forestalled by verbally neutralizing paradoxical perceptions?
The Logic of Admissible Contradictions: Introduction
Common Sense Analyzed as a Paradoxical Theory
Insane Conclusions Forced by Common Sense: Paradigm 1

STUDIES IN PERSONNESS AND PRE-SCIENCE
Forward, 2008
D. Novel Possibilities of Integration
Appendix A. Hilbert's stroke-numerals and Freudenthal (PDF, 884K)

Superseding Scientific Apprehension of the Inanimate World: The "Phenomenological" Base of Physics
Sentences Which Are Rigorously Unknowable But True
Studies in Constitutive Dissociation
The Choice Chronology Project
The Counting Stands: Plurality, Thinghood, Contradiction
Meta-Technological Evidence: More on 1=2
An Epistemic Calculus: Realizing "Impossibilities" by Lifting Annulled Reality-Grades
The Apprehension of Plurality (PDF file, 10.1 megabytes)

STUDIES IN SCIENCE
The Repressed Content-Requirements of Mathematics
Is Mathematics a Scientific Discipline?
Anti-Mathematics
The Disintegration of Possibility: On the Commitments Which Frame Physics
How Physics Doctrine Morphs on a Time Scale of Decades
Physics 1978
Schroedinger Roulette
The Biological Anthropic Principle

PERSONNESS
Personalysis: A Sketch
Personness II: Attachment's Turbulent Causation

CRITICAL NOTES ON PERSONNESS
I. Objections to Personalysis
II. Case Studies in Personness
III. The "Other Minds" Difficulty
IV. Personness: Self-Cancellation
V. Elevated Experience
Again Empiricism
The Personness Premise -- III
Preface to "Personness IV"

PERSONALYSIS: 1995 Tutorial
Part I. The totality as "individual experience" integrated around personal identity and purpose
Intermezzo: A recapitulation with topical commentary

Part II. High-level affections when "personal experience" is integrated around personal identity and purpose


PERSONNESS AND DESTABLIZING EFFICACY
An Essay on the 1981 Essay and the 2001 Revision
Transforming Personness by Conscious Action

PERSONNESS REALIZED
Personalysis: An Account of Dignity and Its Opposite
Dignity: An Outline

VALUES, REVERENCE, HUMILITY
1. So-called value disputes:  reflections and autobiography
2. Philosophy of Reverence and Humility

DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AS A POST-SCIENTIFIC MODALITY
The Psychedelic State
Hypnosis and the Delusiveness of Normal Perception and Logic
Premonitory Imagery
Romance As Illumination
Appendix: Critiques of Scientific Psychology

ANARCHIC SOCIOLOGY
The Collectivity After the Abolition of the Universe and Time
Escaping "Social" Reality: Principles of a Higher Civilization

HUMAN RELATIONS
People Think
Analytical Sketch of Life-Conduct

Conduct and Preferability: The Observed Need for Values

Self-Justification in Human Relations: The Factual Platform for Justifying Claims
Rules for Historiography

ECONOMICS
Prospect: The Economic Phenomenon
Indictments of Capitalist Imperialism?
Premises for Communist Economics
Marx's Economic Axioms: Their Compatibility with Bourgeois Economy
Rethinking Communist Economics After the Twentieth-Century Debacle

A Crisis for the Socialist Idea: the First Step
The Theory of Socialist Economic Administration: Notes on Chs. VII, VIII
The Theory of Socialist Economic Administration: How is the consumption vector arrived at?
Communism 2010

AESTHETICS
Essay: Concept Art
My New Concept of General Acognitive Culture
Token
Art or Brend?
The Meaning of My Avant-Garde Hillbilly and Blues Music
On Pandit Pran Nath
The Art Connection: My Endeavor's Intersections with Art

AGAINST "PARTICIPATION": A Total Critique of Culture
Preview/Contents/Bibliographic Forward
(Chapter 6) Structure Art
(Chapter 9) Newness as Sole Value
(Chapter 10) Post-Dada and the Crumbling of Art's Purposes
(Chapter 11) "Brend," chapter from From "Culture" to Brend
1998 thoughts for the next draft
Bibliography of Aesthetics
Marxist Art Roster



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